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From: twb@cbnewsh.att.com (thomas.w.beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Background disk format
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.162817.17854@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 14 Nov 90 16:28:17 GMT
References: <421@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> <1990Nov12.212722.2262@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1990Nov12.212722.2262@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) writes:
> I guess what I really want is a program to format a floppy that will
> do it in the background so I can be working on other things while
> formatting floppies. Make a boring task less boring!!
> 
> Any suggestions? 386sx box with 5M RAM and Win3.0 is the setup.
> tj

I believe you can create a .BAT file to do the format and then run it from
a .PIF that allows background execution.

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Tom Beattie
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